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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Why hypersonic weapons change everything — Alex Krainer

The war game just changed big time, actually for the first time since the dominance of sea power and then air power. This transition makes a great deal of very expensive military equipment obsolete. Moreover, the West is following in this domain, and not leading.

This article does not mention another emergent military domain, space. Spending on missiles, missile defense, and space capabilities will shape the bulk of military spending, inclduing research and production, going forward.

This will not obviate the need for boots on the ground and here a transition is underway to autonomous machines on the ground, in the air, and beneath of surface of the seas.

All of the this presages a shift in military spending and potentially increases inorder to catch up and dominate. While the primary players will be the US, Russia, China, and India, this trend will spill over into the entire international arms market.

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  1. Peter PanMarch 23, 2023 at 10:51 AM

    Hypersonic weapons represent the (latest) failure of Ronald Reagan's SDI - better known as "Star Wars". Not a failure if you got hold of a piece of the funding.

    Atomic weapons changed everything except the opportunity to fight pointless wars at a smaller scale. Given that there's still an arms race, including nuclear armaments, we can conclude that nothing has changed in terms of war preparation.

    Humans are always preparing themselves for that which is avoidable.

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